Emmet-Chalmers Fire Protection District
The Emmet / Chalmers Fire Protection District includes Emmet Township and Chalmers Township surrounding the west edge of Macomb, Illinois in McDonough County. The district includes residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural areas. They protect several residential subdivisions, parks, and churches. Areas along the highways include business and industry. Major highways (US 136, US 67, Illinois…
Read MoreLamoine River Valley Basin
Lamoine River is a beautiful 125-mile-long tributary of the Illinois River in western Illinois which gracefully meanders directly through the heart of Forgottonia, Macomb. Its watershed covers approximately 2,000 square miles, and it is the sixth-largest tributary to the Illinois River. It is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Lamoine or La Moine River rises in southwestern Warren County and initially flows lazily southwestward through southeastern Henderson and northwestern McDonough…
Read MoreVillage of Tennessee
In March, 1854, Tennessee township, was selected by L. C. Bacon, T. K. Waddill and S. Cockerham as a site upon which to establish the village of Tennessee. Work along the line of the C. B. & Q., railroad had already commenced, which, from the survey, passed through that section of McDonough County, and was…
Read MoreVillage of Blandinsville
Blandinsville is a village in McDonough County, Illinois, 16 miles northwest of Macomb. The town is named for Joseph L. Blandin, owner of the first general store, whom, with his parents he came to Illinois, in June, 1837, settled on land which now forms a part of Blandinsville. In 1842, the town was platted on a tract known as…
Read MoreNew Philadelphia, IL – Mound Township
New Philadelphia was laid out in 1857 by Lloyd Thomas when the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad first surveyed to pass through that area. When the railroad was eventually run a half mile north of the original survey, Mr. P. Wilson and J.H. Langford, in 1866 laid out the town at that location changing the name…
Read MoreWalnut Grove, IL
The unincorporated community of Walnut Grove township was laid out in 1870 by County Surveyor Wm. J. Edie. It lays seven miles northwest of Bushnell in McDonough County along what was the C.B.& Q. Railroad. This beautiful prairie country is bounded on the north by Warren County, on the east by Prairie City and Bushnell…
Read MoreColmar, IL
Colmar is an unincorporated community in Lamoine Township, McDonough County, Illinois that is located on Illinois Route 61, 4 miles north-northeast of Plymouth. Colmar and the Lamoine Township has a robust Amish community and you can often see it’s members in their horse drawn buggies along the scenic rural roadsides.
Read MoreVillage of Bardolph
Unforgettable Forgottonia’s Bardolph is located in the central northeast section of McDonough County, 6 miles northeast of Macomb and 5 miles southwest of Bushnell. The village was originally laid out on August 3, 1852 by William H. Randolph and C.V. Chandler of Macomb. It was first established as “Randolph” after it’s founder, until it was discovered another…
Read MoreAdair, IL
Adair was laid out in August 1870 under the name of “Reedyville;” though the name has never been officially changed, the location is known as Adair because that name was given to the post office. The village is an unincorporated part of the New Salem Township and a census-designated place (CDP) in McDonough County, Illinois, It is located…
Read MoreVillage of Sciota
The village of Sciota in Unforgettable Forgottonia was laid out in September 1867 by William B. Clarke and was called Clarkesville in his honor. Another town in Illinois already had been named Clarksville (without the “e”) so when the new town’s post office was established on February 7, 1868, it was called Amicus. This discrepancy between…
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